US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is leveraging the fears of Russia and China to demand funding transparency from think tanks the State Department works with, while omitting the actual, documented sources of influence dollars.
Citing the need to “protect the integrity of civil society institutions,” Pompeo announced on Tuesday that think tanks and other organizations that “wish to engage” with the State Department need to “disclose prominently on their websites funding they receive from foreign governments, including state-owned or state-operated subsidiary entities.”
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